insistence
IPA: ɪnsˈɪstʌns
noun
- The state of being insistent.
- An urgent demand.
- (fencing) The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.
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Examples of "insistence" in Sentences
- "She does not wish to speak with you, and your insistence is insult."
- To this end, Israel's challenge and insistence is a deliberate attempt to change the law.
- They told him, with a certain insistence, that was half appeal for belief, half challenge for contradiction, how much they were going to enjoy their idleness.
- But the administration's "ideological insistence" is one that Thiessen's former boss presumably shared, since the Bush administration prosecuted hundreds of terrorism-related cases in civilian court, with an 88 percent conviction rate according to NYU's Center for Law and Security.
- This insistence is the more striking because a number of critics — most passionately and recently Harold Bloom — have associated Shakespeare with the rejected Falstaff, and Hal with the narcissistic young Earl of Southampton, whom Shakespeare may have courted in the first part of his love-sonnet sequence.
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